How to make page visible in the menu only if staying at that page?

Yes, this works perfectly, thank you very much! ??

Awesome, thanks for the update. And you’re quite welcome!

I’m sorry for the trouble, but I noticed some odd behaviour in certain scenarios.

When on address myweb.com/blog or myweb.com/blog/postname, all is fine.

But when I click on a month in archive
– so the path is myweb.com/blog/2013/09/

on a blog category
– myweb.com/blog/category/nameofthecategory/

or on some tag
– myweb.com/blog/tag/nameofthetag/

the blog section is then again shown without the Blog in the top menu.

Is there some solution to this? If there can be some hard-coded filter to force the display of “Blog” in the top menu every time when there is /blog/ in the address of a page, that would do. Not sure if that is possible though.

Or, alternatively, isn’t it possible to define a “negative” filter for Blog, so I would make the page _public_ but define that everything with /blog/ in address is hidden in the top menu unless a reader is on a page with /blog/ in the address? That could maybe also solve the “dual” behaviour with months etc. in a more straightforward manner?

Thank you very much!

No worries. I’ve tried not to hardcore anything so the solution will be generic enough for anyone else who may cone across this thread.

I’m not at my computer at the moment (posting from my phone), but looking at the code I think you can change one line to fix it.

Change

if ( (!is_home() && !is_single() ) )

to

if ( !is_home() )

I apologize but this removes Blog from the top menu even in cases when it was displayed originally, and it doesn’t add it there when clicking on the archive month etc.

OK, I’ll look at it over the weekend. Shouldn’t take too much to fix. I just need to be sitting in front of my computer so I can test it first ??

Thank you for your patience.

One more time! ??

Just changing the if statement again:

if ( (!is_home() && !is_single() && !is_category() && !is_tag() ) )

Full code:

add_filter( 'get_pages','include_current_page_if_hidden', 1000 );
function include_current_page_if_hidden( $pages ) {
    if ( (!is_home() && !is_single() && !is_category() && !is_tag() ) )
        return $pages;

    $postspage_id = get_option('page_for_posts');
    for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $pages ); $i++ ) {
        $included_ids[] = $pages[$i]->ID;
    }

    if ( !in_array( $postspage_id, $included_ids ) ) {
        $pages[] = get_post( $postspage_id );
    }

    return $pages;
}

Good and bad news. ??

Now it works for tag and category links.

But for archive month (which is actually more prominent link on my blog than tag/category) – i.e. when I click on “September” – it is still the same.

Not sure given my very basic understanding of these things, but is it perhaps that months (e.g. “2013/09/” in the address, at least that is what is shown in my case) are not treated in the changed statement above, unlike “is_category” and “is_tag”? So – just a non-professional idea – is there something like “is_date” or whatever?

Thank you!

if ( (!is_home() && !is_single() && !is_category() && !is_tag() && !is_archive() ) )

I’ll see if I can clean that up eventually ??

Yees, now we can sing and drink and rejoice!

My blog says big thanks! ??

Tomas

Awesome, glad we got that figured out!